CVE-2006-0956 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in nuauth within NuFW versions prior to 1.0.21. This flaw allows authenticated attackers to cause a service hang by flooding the authentication server with packets, specifically due to improper handling of blocking TLS sockets. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 1.7, indicating a low impact (partial availability loss) and requiring local access and authentication. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, suggesting some level of awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nufw:nufw_firewall:1.0.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.